Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Scrapping Feelings and Scrapping Freely

Some of you may remember this post when I revealed that I'd made it through to the final 15 of the UKS Scrap Factor competition, by agreeing to switch from Paper to Hybrid scrapping. Well, it's Week 4 of voting and Week 5 of creating and I'm still just about hanging in there.
It's rather an odd competition because it's not yet about winning, it's about notlosing at the moment. Each week the two scrappers with the least votes go head-to-head with a new page (not the page from that week's theme) and one of these is eliminated. We don't get to see the votes, nor are comments allowed while the voting is in progress ... it's an odd feeling to have no idea how well you are doing, or indeed how many close shaves or near misses you've had!
I guess it's all good experience though :D

I've had a steep learning curve trying to incorporate hybrid elements into all my entries but have come across a remarkable number of free supplies and haven't (yet) had to spend any money at all on the competition - my fellow forgers on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog would be so proud of me!

Here are a few links I have found useful so far:

Oscraps - lots of free kits including this fab date stamp set - so versatile!
Designer Digitals - some freebies and helpful (video) tutorials too Louise Fortune has designed some universally useful free printables.
UKScrappers is also having a weekly digi/hybrid give-away this year, featuring several digi/hybrid designers - details available in the UKS library here, and the downloads are available here.

Don't forget that everyone can play along with the competition - and be in with a chance of a small weekly prize in one of the three categories (Paper, Hybrid or Digi) - the deadline for Week 5 (Scrap with ONE photo) is 8pm BST Sunday May 15th.

I love the audition page in the post. I'd find the process nerve wracking with no real feedback, I'm sure as a math person you'd be interested in the numbers. Good luck, can't wait to read the post where you announce you made the final cut :)

I'd forgotten about the competition as I don't visit UKS much any more. Off to have another look though and perhaps vote ;-) Great page in this post.

In my early days of digi I used Ikea Goddess to source free stuff, she stopped doing it a couple of years ago but there is still a long list of places she used as sources on her blog. Might be worth a shot if you're looking for mew stuff.